In the absorbing and timely “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which opened last weekend at Chance Theater, the main character says halfway along “There are no tangents in this show.”

That would seem an unlikely pronouncement since the line immediately follows a tearful lament about the fate of a sock puppet monkey named George the Second’s Friend and leads into dry, recorded audio of a Supreme Court justice considering a constitutional amendment and wondering whether the word “shall” actually means “shall.”

But in her Pulitzer Prize-nominated 2017 work, playwright Heidi Schreck’s imaginative weave of constitutional debate with personal and familial reminiscence adroitly steers a clear, focused questioning and indictment of America’s historical lack of a legal framework for providing w

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